Hater wrings a lot of intensity and drama out of a standard guitar-bass-drums-vocals lineup. Their 2022 album Sincere was a mini-masterpiece of tightly coiled emotions, menacingly jangled guitars, thundering bass, precisely thumped drums, and sparsely wrought production presided over by the taut to the point of snapping in half vocals of Caroline Landahl. It was a Swedish cousin of the Wedding Present’s Seamonsters and marked the group’s giant leap into the upper echelon of indie rock. Fast forward a couple of years and Mosquito appears. It’s another gut punch of an album, full of bitterness, bleak desperation, and gnarled emotions, this time delivered with a softer, less intense touch.
The band dial back the violence just a bit on…

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